Source: Tonic Mag
This week on the Generic Foiling Podcast, Liam & Freedie are joined by Charles Bertrand, a naval architect from the F-ONE foil and board design team.
With twelve years of experience, Charles helps Liam learn how a product moves from the brief stage to being released in the market. Throughout the episode, Charles explains the F-ONE team’s vision for the future and why incorporating less HM carbon into the front wings can be advantageous.
Charles joined the F-ONE team in 2012 and quickly established himself as a key player.
He’s an enthusiastic and passionate waterman, qualified naval architect and engineer.
“It’s fantastic to be able to invest my experience of watercraft and play with all the parameters to aim for,
and eventually reach, the sweet spot that makes a product stand out from the others. Combining the aesthetics, hydrodynamics and ergonomics of a shape,
and designing the right structure for it to work as intended, is the real challenge.”
Charles is responsible for all the products we create that interact with the water.
Hydrofoils, twin-tips, surfboards, SUP boards, fins and paddles all receive his masterful attention.
Charles first designs the shapes and then turns his attention to the construction specifications,
which are so crucial to achieving the target characteristics and behavior we’re looking for out on the water.
